I've searched the archives and was not successful in answering the latest question. Here goes; I'm replacing the shift linkage bushings on a 1985 300TD wagon. Removing the selector rod from the tranny lever was simple as the old bushing was gone. As the new bushing reuqires serious force to install, and I do not possess ET-type fingers to get to the top of the lever, the lever has to come to me. I want to remove the lever from the pin. Has anyone done this? And if so, any special instructions? The clamp nut is frozen, so I am picking up some liquid wrench to free it up. So, taking it apart, looking at it, and planning to squirt it with with stuff is my progress to date. Promising. Right?

ps - if there were a scale that calibrated repair jobs according to skin appropriated from knuckles, this one would would be at the top of the list.